"Judge Not" (flash fiction)
“Judge Not” is stellar flash fiction. It resists the temptation to get in its own way, and the emotional transport it provides is astonishing. Your craft is tight; your pacing is perfect, and kinetic imagery saturates every layer of this narrative. The ebb and flow of your restraint and revelation throughout the piece satisfies because it feels so organic. “Judge Not” is a meditation on the presence of absence and the absence of presence in the traditions of Ray Bradbury, The Twilight Zone, and Black Mirror. -- editors of Sky Island Journal
An excerpt When the bank teller shuffled some papers, a stray five dollar bill fell off the edge of the counter and onto the floor. She didn’t notice it and neither did the customer she was deep in conversation with, a woman trying to cash a disability check without a state ID.
The next person in line, however, saw the money. Bending over, he quickly palmed the five dollars and pocketed it. He stood up, listening to the woman complaining in her funny accent. Damn foreigner, the man thought.